This being Compassionate Posting Wednesday on FFL where ne'er a negative word
is written, I am not going to go on at all about just how stoopid and
undeserving it is that meditators who even live in Fairfield do not come to the
group meditation. No, I'll save that for tomorrow and then may be also
consider the fallen away and outright meditation quitters out in the world too;
all those who have fell off the meditation wagon and even walked away entirely.
I am excercising a lot of compassion for them all right now today,
-Buck in the Dome
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> "As human beings, we will inevitably encounter suffering at some point in our
> lives. However, we also have evolved very specific social mechanisms to
> relieve that pain: altruism and compassion. It is not just receiving
> compassion that relieves our pain...The act of experiencing compassion and
> helping others actually leads to tremendous mental and physical well-being
> for us as well. It is our ability to stand together as a group, to support
> each other, to help each other, to communicate for mutual understanding, and
> to cooperate, that has taken our species this far." Dr. James R. Doty, the
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